Stevenson Swanson

Betty Shabazz, the 61-year-old widow of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X, clung desperately to life Sunday, the victim of a suspicious fire in her apartment that left third-degree burns...

Two longtime stars of the Chicago restaurant scene shared the spotlight Monday night when they tied for the title of best Midwest chef of the year at the seventh annual...

For the fourth time, Montgomery Ward was entangled in a lawsuit over the destiny of the lakefront. For the fourth--and, as it turned out, the last--time, the Illinois Supreme Court...

The group of dignitaries standing by the side of a new and controversial canal watched nervously as two men scrambled over mounds of dirt to reach them. Perhaps the men...

His employer had just given him a five-year contract, and yet, already supremely self-confident at the age of 22, Frank Lloyd Wright wanted more. "Mr. Sullivan," he said, "if you...

The commission to design the Auditorium building went on this date to two men, engineer Dankmar Adler and his partner, architect Louis H. Sullivan, who had shown an extraordinary originality...

It may be called Operation Silver Shovel, but there was nothing precious or gleaming about the kind of shoveling that government mole John Christopher and others of his ilk did....

A year-old controversy over plans by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District to build a giant stormwater reservoir in McCook appears to be headed for resolution. On Friday, district board members...

The government lifted the veil on Operation Silver Shovel on Wednesday, detailing a sweeping 3 1/2-year sting greased with $150,000 in payoffs and bolstered by 1,100 taped conversations between public...

As the first political casualty of Operation Silver Shovel prepares to admit to taking dozens of illegal payoffs, another figure is emerging as a vital link between government mole John...